A poster in the Elite community on G+ posted this a few days ago, have to be honest so far its the only interesting thing ive seen on a planet
Where are the abandoned ships and huge shipwrecks on planets?
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I'd like to know as well if it looks like this huge POI from the livestreams.
The only thing I found coming close to a shipwreck was just a few ship debri like the ones we see flying around in USS, and 2 escaped pods near the debri.
This is a nav beacon and are very common.
The ship type that the first poster is talking about is either a T-9 or an Anaconda. So by "like", I mean specifically a T-9 or an Anaconda.
the picture in post 25 https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=221595&page=2&p=3382069&viewfull=1#post3382069 which I think is probably a still from the live streams, shows a craft (T9 I think) but rather than it being just broken up and plonked down on the surface with its Z coord lowered so it looks a bit like it crashed, in the picture it appears that the planet was started to 'swallow' the wreck, the surface having 'grown' over the ship or the ship ploughed into the ground - iow it looks as you might expect a wreck to look and not like it was randomly dumped there as the illegitimate child of RNG and PG
The sense I had of these when they were shown was that they were not the pop up POI's that are as common as dust and almost as interesting most of the time, but perhaps I'm just wrong about that.
I admit I've not scoured the net, but so far I have seen no photographic evidence that these types of wrecks exist, I'm not doubting the people saying they do, just that I've not seen any pictures.
Is it still too early for this, are they that rare? Did FD ever confirm they were in game and if they did, didn't they say 'and here is one for you to all find on planet zxy' - seems to me that would have cleared it up and everyone could be happy hunting them down.
The sense I had of these when they were shown was that they were not the pop up POI's that are as common as dust and almost as interesting most of the time, but perhaps I'm just wrong about that.
I admit I've not scoured the net, but so far I have seen no photographic evidence that these types of wrecks exist, I'm not doubting the people saying they do, just that I've not seen any pictures.
Is it still too early for this, are they that rare? Did FD ever confirm they were in game and if they did, didn't they say 'and here is one for you to all find on planet zxy' - seems to me that would have cleared it up and everyone could be happy hunting them down.
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I found a large quantity of debris in a POI last night, while out on a "Missing Pilot" mission. I am pretty sure based on the large shapes (which stood 2 to 4 times higher than my SRV) that it was the remains of an Anaconda. In fact that there were four small "doors" in a line, similar in shape, size, and arrangement as the four escape hatches along each side of the Anaconda, on one large section of wreckage.
I'd venture it was the largest wreck site I've found, after maybe 100 POI searches and nearly 400km on the SRV odometer.
Oh, and there were 4 Occupied Escape Pods on site.
I'd venture it was the largest wreck site I've found, after maybe 100 POI searches and nearly 400km on the SRV odometer.
Oh, and there were 4 Occupied Escape Pods on site.
the picture in post 25 https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=221595&page=2&p=3382069&viewfull=1#post3382069 which I think is probably a still from the live streams, shows a craft (T9 I think) but rather than it being just broken up and plonked down on the surface with its Z coord lowered so it looks a bit like it crashed, in the picture it appears that the planet was started to 'swallow' the wreck, the surface having 'grown' over the ship or the ship ploughed into the ground - iow it looks as you might expect a wreck to look and not like it was randomly dumped there as the illegitimate child of RNG and PG
The sense I had of these when they were shown was that they were not the pop up POI's that are as common as dust and almost as interesting most of the time, but perhaps I'm just wrong about that.
I admit I've not scoured the net, but so far I have seen no photographic evidence that these types of wrecks exist, I'm not doubting the people saying they do, just that I've not seen any pictures.
Is it still too early for this, are they that rare? Did FD ever confirm they were in game and if they did, didn't they say 'and here is one for you to all find on planet zxy' - seems to me that would have cleared it up and everyone could be happy hunting them down.
I think you are right, judging from what has been said, the T9 and Anaconda wrecks are not in POI's, but are instead static. And that might explain why Mike Evans said "We haven't been looking hard enough." when asked where they are...
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begs the question, if they are static, do FD have instrumentation to know if any have been found, and if not I'm wondering how close to a wild goose chase this may prove to be. Still, its early days and there could be plenty of people who have seen them, not thought anything about it beyond 'wow, how cool' and they just don't (like any sane person) bother with these forums
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To clarify my post above, the POI with what appeared to be a large Anaconda wreck did not look like that linked screenshot. It was proper wreckage parts, much like is found floating in space wreck sites.
Yeah, that is something different then. I have seen quite a few of them. People are actually look for whole complete ships crashed on the ground.
Could you post a screenshot please? I would love to see it.
Plenty more screenshots where this came from, but better you enjoy the hunt yourselves. As the local galnet news item says, it's Orrere, Orrere 2 B. Last known location Lat: 43, Long: -173.
Was there 12 days ago, and have visited it 3 times now including last night. BUT, and it's a big but - while looting it again (be wrong not to) last night the game crashed on me. When I reloaded at the same lat/long it was gone. Really hope Frontier haven't just done something to remove it because it was very cool.
I'll have yet another look for it after work tonight just to be sure.
Incredible! Now the question remains, are these crashed ships? Ships that ran out of fuel or could not take off again? Or a pirate stash like indicated by the live streams?
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btw, the more I've visited this wreck, the more I've come to believe that it's not marked by a POI blue circle at all. The first time I thought it lead me there, but was probably more dumb luck.
No worries, me too! It's really nothing new, and I'm certainly not the first to find it if that reddit thread is anything to go by.
Good reminder that just because something isn't all over the forums (or reddit) doesn't mean it doesn't exist - there'll be more people enjoying the game (or not) than can be bothered posting about it here.
This ship definitely wasn't going anywhere in a hurry. Nothing a pair of jumper leads would solve
Really glad to know that these are in the game! Thanks for sharing.
No worries, me too! It's really nothing new, and I'm certainly not the first to find it if that reddit thread is anything to go by.
Good reminder that just because something isn't all over the forums (or reddit) doesn't mean it doesn't exist - there'll be more people enjoying the game (or not) than can be bothered posting about it here.
This ship definitely wasn't going anywhere in a hurry. Nothing a pair of jumper leads would solve
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I'm having a bit of trouble finding this wreck.
That's hard to explain, and once you're in your buggy everything feels like a valley. It's not in a crater, or mountain range. Kind of in between some though. There's a range on one side, and some craters on the other. In between it's a big area of land that looks like it's collapsing a bit. Few gnarly looking canyons and ravines. It's in a smallish valley part of one of those. Was lucky to be able to land my FDL nearby to be honest.
From the air still very hard to recognise the terrain unless you're very high up though. In the end I recommend orbit til you're as close to those coordinates as you can. Then you have to land and Buggy as close as you can and use the scanner. I can PM anyone exact coordinates if they want. But without spoiling I'll say it's latitude 43 but closer to 44 end. And longitude -173 but closer to -174 end.
That's hard to explain, and once you're in your buggy everything feels like a valley. It's not in a crater, or mountain range. Kind of in between some though. There's a range on one side, and some craters on the other. In between it's a big area of land that looks like it's collapsing a bit. Few gnarly looking canyons and ravines. It's in a smallish valley part of one of those. Was lucky to be able to land my FDL nearby to be honest.
From the air still very hard to recognise the terrain unless you're very high up though. In the end I recommend orbit til you're as close to those coordinates as you can. Then you have to land and Buggy as close as you can and use the scanner. I can PM anyone exact coordinates if they want. But without spoiling I'll say it's latitude 43 but closer to 44 end. And longitude -173 but closer to -174 end.
Thanks for this.
Just about to send you a message.
I'm having a bit of trouble finding this wreck.
I found it too. Went there after i saw that picture.
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I log out and in multiple times and its in same place so its persistent. It isn´t POI (not market in ships scanner as POI), there is no skimmers, no fly zone and all cargo were legal salvage. I found 3 cargo racks, those had rare materials. I found Gold, palladium and Bertrandite cargo canisters. You can easily see it 5 km away and i flew up to 15 km and i could still see it (Hard, but the dot was still different that everything else on surface. I visited during night so i don´t know how it look in light.
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